[ignoramous]

> ...but dare I say that he maybe will lack some of the foresight, acumen, and product instincts of Bezos?

If you'd ask around the leadership at Amazon, they'd say Andy Jassy is as close to a "co-founder" you're going to find.

Besides, one simply cannot found and run a business like AWS while also lacking foresight, acumen, and product instincts.

> I am reminded of Gates/Ballmer. But maybe I am overfitting here.

Andy allegedly was tapped up to run Microsoft at different points in his career. So, may be not...

Andy likes to say that in business, rarely does one catch lightening in a bottle (ie you need a lot of iterations before you get lucky), but Jeff Bezos did indeed catch one in Andy Jassy. I mean just listen to him talk: https://thedisruptivevoice.libsyn.com/60-overcoming-the-capi...

[yowlingcat]

Please don't conflate a podcast with a vantage point from within the beast. There is a reason I accepted my offer in the first place. I did earnestly believe Jassy's ability to run AWS is relatively unparalleled, as it has been historically.

Strong as Jassy is, he is no Bezos. And I will say that AWS and retail are different beasts. For obvious reasons, I can't legally get into any more detail than that.